Boardgames!
Now, you may have noticed at the top of my blog, it mentions I'm a boardgamer. Yes, I have more hobbies than just knitting! Shocking, I know!
On Thursday, Karyn and I went to Rob's place, to meet with him and several others to play some games. We played
TransAmerica first. This is a train themed game. Each player is randomly and secretly assigned one city from each of the coloured regions. Once you've seen where your cities are, you place your start marker, then each turn you can add track to any track that connects to your marker. If you connect to track someone else built, then you can connect track later to any of that connected track, and they can connect to yours. Eventually, everyone's track will connect up. Once someone conencts all five of their cities, that round is over, and everyone scores the number of track pieces it would take to connect up any remaining cities they've not yet connected. Repeat that for a couple of times, and the player with the lowest score wins. I think Mark won that game.
Then we played
Cloud 9. You're in the basket of a hot air balloon. The pilot rolls special dice (each with 2 blanks, and one each of red, yellow, green, and purple balloons on each side). Do you think that the pilot has cards in their hand enough to match the dice? If so, stay in the balloon, in the hope of moving up to the next level to score more points. If not, jump out, and score the current level. If they pilot can play the right cards, they do, and you move on up. If not, the balloon crashes, goes back to the start, and the players still in the balloon score nothing, and everyone gets another card. Then the next player is the pilot. However, the higher up you are, the more dice you have to throw, and the harder it is to make it. I forget who won the first time, though I came painfully last. The second time, I'm pretty sure Rob won.
Lastly we played
Metro. Set in the Paris Metro, you have to connect track up to make the longest possible line for your train to get to a destination station, playing tiles to achieve this aim. While you do that, you also want to try and prevent others from getting long lines, possibly by completing their lines for them. Karyn won this by a long way.
Oh, and if you're in the Saint Louis area, and you like playing board games, feel free to join us at the Saint Louis Board Game Meetup. Don't worry if you don't know the games, we'll be happy to help you learn!
On Thursday, Karyn and I went to Rob's place, to meet with him and several others to play some games. We played
TransAmerica first. This is a train themed game. Each player is randomly and secretly assigned one city from each of the coloured regions. Once you've seen where your cities are, you place your start marker, then each turn you can add track to any track that connects to your marker. If you connect to track someone else built, then you can connect track later to any of that connected track, and they can connect to yours. Eventually, everyone's track will connect up. Once someone conencts all five of their cities, that round is over, and everyone scores the number of track pieces it would take to connect up any remaining cities they've not yet connected. Repeat that for a couple of times, and the player with the lowest score wins. I think Mark won that game.
Then we played
Cloud 9. You're in the basket of a hot air balloon. The pilot rolls special dice (each with 2 blanks, and one each of red, yellow, green, and purple balloons on each side). Do you think that the pilot has cards in their hand enough to match the dice? If so, stay in the balloon, in the hope of moving up to the next level to score more points. If not, jump out, and score the current level. If they pilot can play the right cards, they do, and you move on up. If not, the balloon crashes, goes back to the start, and the players still in the balloon score nothing, and everyone gets another card. Then the next player is the pilot. However, the higher up you are, the more dice you have to throw, and the harder it is to make it. I forget who won the first time, though I came painfully last. The second time, I'm pretty sure Rob won.
Lastly we played
Metro. Set in the Paris Metro, you have to connect track up to make the longest possible line for your train to get to a destination station, playing tiles to achieve this aim. While you do that, you also want to try and prevent others from getting long lines, possibly by completing their lines for them. Karyn won this by a long way.
Oh, and if you're in the Saint Louis area, and you like playing board games, feel free to join us at the Saint Louis Board Game Meetup. Don't worry if you don't know the games, we'll be happy to help you learn!
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